news reader

If you live in a country that has reasonable to great Internet connection and if you have a smartphone or tablet, chances are, you don't get your news from an actual newspaper or even from the TV set anymore. Digital news readers are the item du jour, at least when it comes to people who want to keep abreast of all that is happening in the digital and real world.

If you've missed having a dog deliver your newspaper (of if you've always wanted to experience that), you can have the 21st century digital edition of that piece of American suburban life. Corgi for Feedly brings you the news that actually matters to you in a manner that doesn't have too many frills and bells. It's just a straightforward news reader to help you sort through or make sense of all the gazillion news items or articles that you come across each day.

With all the websites that you monitor, the social media accounts that you follow and the articles that come across your feed, sometimes, it's just hard to keep up with all of them. That's why you have your RSS readers and news aggregator apps to help you make sense of all of these. A new kid on the block called Palabre is now available for your devices, and its Material Design and features makes it a must have for Android users.

Feedly is one of the Top 5 News Readers for Android. And just recently, its developer has pushed out a new version for Android. It's still the same reliable reader app but has been enhanced to support higher resolution images. The app now features new settings theme that follows Material Design--the Holo Light and Material Light. Feedly URL shortening has retired and a new Twitter sharing has be introduced. As with most app updates, the new Feedly promises fewer freezes and crashes.

Google Reader may be out but there are a number of RSS readers available. We've seen a few lately like Source, a Material Design news reader from EvolveSMS developer. Of course, there's also the regularly updated Flipboard. Other popular reader apps include the Feedly Cloud, NewsBlur, and Sony Social Life among others. Recently updated is the Inoreader --an RSS & News Reader app that lets you search for interesting stuff on social network and on the web.

If by this time you are still mourning the demise of Google Reader and you don't have a proper replacement yet, this app will try to be the one. NewsBlur attempts to become the app that will try to make sense of all the websites, articles and information that is available on the Internet. Having a proper news reader is very important to keep you updated while not going into information overload.

With a ton of news readers on Android, especially those that use the same news sources, differentiation can be a bit difficult. Considering that functionality is almost always the same, such apps nowadays compete on the design. Using the principles of Material Design, Klinker Apps, makers of the popular apps such as Talon for Twitter, EvolveSMS and the new Blur Launcher, has announced Source, a news reader whose beauty lies in its simplicity.

In keeping up with the transformation of its basic apps into their “Material” design language, Google has now updated the look of its News and Weather app. The panel and card-type design now makes the app, which is built-in for some devices, look like Google Now. It also seems to be more competitive now with other news apps like Flipboard, News360 and even Google’s own Google Play Newsstand.

Thanks to the Internet and mobile devices, we live in a world where we get an almost never-ending flow of news available at our fingertips. So much so that now our problem is how to best handle that flood of information rushing towards us. News readers have become not just our source but also our filter and our shield, not just letting us choose the news and topics that we do want while keeping others at bay, they also give a bit of a visual flair to those bits of information, making the reading experience more pleasurable and engaging. Here are our top 5 picks for news readers on Android.

Flyne, the offline reader app from the creator of the popular Falcon Pro, has just announced its latest update. Along with speed improvements and bug fixes, this new version gives users a few new options on how they want their articles to be displayed.